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Constantine Cavafy
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My work, I’m very careful about it, and I love it.But today I’m discouraged by how slowly it’s going.
The day has affected my mood.
It gets darker and darker. Endless wind and rain.
I’m more in the mood for looking that for writing.
In this picture, I’m now gazing at a handsome boy
who is lying down close to a spring,
exhausted from running.
What a handsome boy; what a heavenly noon
has caught him up in sleep.
I sit and gaze like this for a long time,
recovering through art from the effort of creating it.
From: Collected poems
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1992
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1992
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My work, I’m very careful about it, and I love it.But today I’m discouraged by how slowly it’s going.
The day has affected my mood.
It gets darker and darker. Endless wind and rain.
I’m more in the mood for looking that for writing.
In this picture, I’m now gazing at a handsome boy
who is lying down close to a spring,
exhausted from running.
What a handsome boy; what a heavenly noon
has caught him up in sleep.
I sit and gaze like this for a long time,
recovering through art from the effort of creating it.
From: Collected poems
Publisher: 1992, Princeton University Press, Princeton
Publisher: 1992, Princeton University Press, Princeton
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